Korea Absent from Top University List

New findings released on Sunday listed Harvard University as the most globalized university in the world.

The Internet edition of Newsweek, the U.S. weekly news magazine, announced their evaluation results under the title of “The Complete List: The Top 100 Global Universities.” Harvard University was placed as first, and Stanford University and Yale University placed second and third, respectively. No Korean universities which were ranked as top 200 universities last year by the evaluation announced by The Times, a British daily newspaper, were included in the list, including Seoul National University which had placed 93rd.

Chinese universities, excluding those in Hong Kong, were also excluded. On the contrary, quite a few Japanese universities were ranked among the top 100 universities: Tokyo University (16th), Kyoto University (29th), Osaka University (57th), Tohoku University (68th), and Nagoya University (94th). Two Singapore and Hong Kong universities were also included, respectively, in the list: the National University of Singapore (36th), Nanyang Technological University (71st), the University of Hong Kong (69th), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (96th).

The evaluation was based on the number of highly cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices.

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